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As a reference for physical education and adapted physical education
teachers for use in building modified equipment for their students. Also
as a reference for community play and support group leaders serving
children with special needs.
Teresa Sullivan has been teaching students with various
disabilities in adapted physical education since 2002 in the North East
Independent School District (NEISD) in Texas. She has been an active
member of the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance (TAHPERD) since 1998. Teresa has transformed the
NEISD Special Olympics program into an exemplary sports program for
young adults with special needs. She participates as an Area 20 Special
Olympics co-head trainer and is involved in the Area Sports Management
Team (ASMT) committee for the San Antonio area. In addition, she has
been involved in a state-level games committee for Special Olympics
Texas. Many of Teresa's athletes have competed in area, state, and
international Special Olympic events. Teresa is well known for her
innovation in building equipment. She has presented various workshops
addressing how to build equipment for people with special needs. Teresa
was awarded the Superintendent's Award for NEISD during 2005-2006 and
has been named Coach of the Year and Trainer of the Year for Special
Olympics Texas in Area 20.
Cindy Slagle has been an active member of the Texas Association
for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (TAHPERD) since
1992. She has over 30 years of experience teaching adapted physical
education and 16 years of service to North East Independent School
District (NEISD). Cindy is responsible for leading a team of 14 adapted
physical education specialists dedicated to providing testing,
development, and placement to children with diverse special needs in 64
schools throughout the district. Cindy was the 2006 recipient of the
Texas TAHPERD Adapted Physical Educator of the Year award and the
recipient of the 2006-07 Superintendent's Award for NEISD. In February
2007 she received the Adapted Physical Education Teacher of the Year
Award from the Southern District American Alliance for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance. She is a graduate of Kansas State
University. Cindy has presented numerous district in-service workshops
and has been a presenter at more than 30 state and national conferences,
most notably the National Conference on Physical Activity for
Exceptional Learners, New York State AHPERD, the National AAHPERD
Conference, and the Midwest Symposium of Therapeutic Recreation and
Physical Activities. Cindy receives great satisfaction sharing her
experiences with her colleagues while expanding her knowledge base.
Thelma (T.J.) Hapshie is a nationally certified adapted physical
education teacher with more than 40 years of experience working with
people with developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities in
institutional settings, recreation centers, and group homes.
Hapshie invented and patented a device that provides auditory cues to
assist visually impaired people in participating in bowling. In 2009 she
was named Adapted Physical Educator of the Year by the Texas Association
of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (TAHPERD). Hapshie
was also named the 2011 Recreation Professional of the Year by TAHPERD.
Vic Brevard has been an educator since 1989. He coached football,
basketball, track, and tennis for 8 years (4 years with Refugio
Independent School District and 4 years in Ft. Bend Independent School
District in Texas). He was the middle school sport coordinator at both
school districts and was and the team leader for the Alief ISD adapted
physical education program. Vic is the recipient of the 2008 Texas
TAHPERD Adapted Physical Educator of the Year Award.
Debbie Brevard taught for 28 years. She started out in Andrews at
the high school, where she was the cheerleader coach. After moving to
Refugio, she coached high school volleyball, middle school basketball,
and track. Debbie was the head track coach and assistant volleyball
coach at Kempner High School in Ft. Bend, Texas. She then worked as an
elementary physical education teacher. She taught adapted physical
education for five years.
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So you and your spouse would like a quiet dinner together and the hotel provides a babysitter, easy right? Double-check the hours of babysitting services. Make sure that they are available during the time you need. If not, see if they can recommend anybody.
Ask the same questions as you would at home. If there is an organized program ask the following questions:
Remember that this is a family vacation. Try to do as much as you can with the family and your children; the memories can never be replaced.
Safety Tips > Where to Stay with Children > Childproof Your Hotel > Vacation Babysitters
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The operation of the 3-terminal regulator becomes unstable when the OUTPUT pin is pulled up with a resistor.
The 3-terminal regulator is designed on the assumption that a current is supplied to the load.
If a current is supplied to its OUTPUT pin from an external source, the regulator becomes uncontrollable and cannot operate normally.
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Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur have been put on red alert over the availability of Willian, according to reports.
The Evening Standard claimed early on Friday that, were Taison to join Shakhtar Donetsk, Premier League clubs - including Chelsea - would be keen on his compatriot.
And, after the uncapped Brazilian swapped Metalist Kharkiv for the Donbass Arena, speculation has instantly linked his would-be teammate with a move away from the club.
Chelsea had appeared set to sign Taison after agreeing a fee in principal for the player, but a change in ownership saw the Blues' apparent deal disappear, and now their target has joined this season's Champions League group stage opponents in a £12.5 million deal.
"On 10 January, presidents of FC Shakhtar and FC Metalist Rinat Akhmetov and Serhiy Kurchenko negotiated the transfer of a forward Barcellos Fred Taison from the Kharkiv club to the Donetsk team," read a club statement on Shakhtar's website.
That move has led to Tottenham Hotspur also being linked with Willian, with manager Andre Villas-Boas an admirer of the 24-year-old, according to Metro.
Indeed, the Spurs boss has come close to signing the player in the past, according to the report, and has expressed a desire to play in the Premier League.
However, the asking price is in excess of £20million, the paper claims, and could be an issue for the White Hart Lane outfit. Tottenham Hotspur would have to break their record transfer fee to bring the player to north London, where he'd be alongside compatriots Sandro and Heurelho Gomes.
Chelsea aren't short of Brazilians either, with David Luiz, Ramires and Oscar all part of the first team fold at Stamford Bridge.
And, with the player admitting last month that he was ready to join the Blues, interim manager Rafa Benitez will certainly believe he has a chance of landing the player if the funds are made available by owner Roman Abramovich.
"My desire was there, with a £20.3million offer from a big club like Chelsea. I wanted to pack my things and go, but I can't do that as I am under contract," he told ESPN.com.br.
With only 18 months left on his current deal and a potential replacement now signed, things may have changed if Willian does indeed still want to leave.
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See, Shop, and Support Amazing! This holiday season, enjoy a festive event over the holiday season, experience the collection with out-of-town guests, and give the gift of art to a loved one!
The Thinker: A CMA Blog
Provenance at CMA Chef Partner Douglas Katz shares his grandmother's challah stuffing recipe that you can impress your family and friends with on holidays. Enjoy!
The great 19th century American landscape painter, Thomas Cole, said that "the frame is the soul of the painting." And for many Clevelanders, the soul of local, artistic practice was ushered in with the Cleveland School movement, a period of intense artistic growth and achievement that spanned the turn of the 19th century through the 1950s. Help us realize new, custom-built frames for this piece and others in the Cleveland School collection.
Spend a virtual lunch break with the Cleveland Museum of Art: Join us on Monday, November 25 at Noon for a live Twitter chat with CMA's Provenance Chef Partner Douglas Katz! Until 1 p.m., Katz will be answering questions and handing out tips about creative cooking for Thanksgiving and discussing Provenance's new prix fixe menu, Home & Hearth.
Opening on Sunday, November 10, Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives reawakens the spirit of these works, which are removed by hundreds of years from the hands into which they were originally placed.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is proud to welcome electronic artist Mark Fell to Transformer Station on Wednesday, November 13 as part of the CMA Concerts at Transformer Station series. The concert series aims at showcasing eclectic and adventurous music in the Hingetown arts venue.
Photos from MIX: Underneath on Friday, November 1, 2013.
In tribute of the many female artists who paved the way for those today, THE GIRLS IN THE BAND(2011) tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the 1920s to today. We catch up with the film's director before the film's screening at the CMA this weekend.
Many works of African art refer to and derive meaning from an invisible realm beyond the material world, serving as conduits between the living and the spirits, as conveyed throughout the Cleveland Museum of Art's newest exhibition, Fragments of the Invisible. In the spirit of Halloween and MIX: Underneath, we go beneath the surface and examine the spirituality and power behind masks, particularly the Helmet Mask on view in the exhibition.
Fragments of the Invisible marks the American debut of 34 works of Central African art acquired in 2010 by the Cleveland Museum of Art from the Belgian couple René and Odette Delenne. Many of the works that make up this transformative acquisition have never before been published nor displayed, until the exhibition opens on Sunday, October 27, 2013.


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Your Dog Knows What You Did Last Summer
¡Viva la Science!
So, okay, your dog probably can't actually remember your misdeeds from summers past. Luckily for you. But deferred imitation and declarative memory are abilities we had previously only ascribed to humans and apes.
To figure out what dogs' brains are capable of, researchers Claudia Fugazza and Adám Miklósi from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary had owners train their dogs in a method called "Do as I do." The technique involves teaching dogs an "imitation rule" with familiar actions that can then be generalized to new situations.
Eight dogs (and their owners) were involved in the study. All the dogs were female, ranging in age from 2 to 10 years old. The subjects were comprised of collies, a Shetland sheepdog, a Czechoslovakian wolfdog, a Yorkshire terrier and a mixed breed.
In the study, the dog owner first told their canine to sit. The owner then performed a simple novel task—ringing a bell, for example, or walking around a bucket—that the dog watched. It would be one thing to have the dog perform the same action right away, but the mere ability to immediately imitate an action isn't what the researchers were studying. Looking at retention span, they wanted to know if dogs could still perform the action after they'd been forced to think about something else for a while.
So dog and owner would go behind a screen for a delay ranging from 40 seconds to 10 minutes, meaning the dog couldn't keep staring at (and thinking about) that bell or that bucket. Out of sight, out of mind, right? During the delay, the owner "distracted" their dog with some other task, such as playing with a ball.
Once the break ended, the owner took the dog back to the starting point and commanded, "Do it!" And danged if the dog didn't go ring that bell or walk around that bucket. (At least, some of the dogs, some of the time.) Take a look at the video below to see for yourself.
To avoid what's known as the Clever Hans Effect, where an animal responds to unconsciously given cues from a human, researchers also had someone other than the owner give the "Do it!" command. Without knowing what the original action was, this other person had no way of accidentally directing the dog. If the dog performed the action, therefore, it was because their doggy brain had retained the information.
The results are pretty impressive. Think about it—in order to imitate ringing a bell, for example, a dog not only has to maintain a mental image of what her owner did, but she has to figure out how ringing a bell with a human hand translates into a doggy body ringing a bell.
The researchers conclude, "The ability to encode and recall an action after a delay implies that the dogs have a mental representation of the human demonstration. In addition, the ability to imitate a novel action after a delay without previous practice suggests the presence of a specific type of long-term memory in dogs. This would be so-called 'declarative memory,' which refers to memories which can be consciously recalled, such as facts or knowledge."
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Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein (just one original film score to his credit, "On the Waterfront" but what a stunner, Jerry Goldsmith, Miklos Rozsas
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Frustration boiled over in West Pullman and across the Chicagoland area. A 1PM deadline this afternoon left Illinois aid workers scrambling to process huge numbers of applications for food aid. Storms in April created record floods in communities across Chicago, adversely impacting nearly 40,000 households that are still struggling to recover.
"This is a mess. It's not organized," complained Chloe Nelson of Chicago, when it comes to long lines in West Pullman. "People are cutting in front of other people. And the lines are all messed up." The new funds, released through the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP for short, are issued by the Federal government. But it falls to the Illinois Department of Human Services to disperse the money. And there was simply no way Human Services could get to all the people before the 1PM deadline.
Across the Chicagoland area, in offices across Cook, Lake and DuPage County, it was a similar picture. At sunrise, WGN's Skycam 9 captured pictures of lines stretching for blocks. From Gurnee to Wheaton to Stickney and the far South Side of Chicago, few communities were spared. And for many, the process of getting federal aid money has been frustrating, to say the very least.
In West Pullman, with the 1PM deadline come and gone, applicants won a reprieve when state officials made a decision. To help those standing still standing in line, state workers issue cards to those still outside – telling them to come back next week.
"Those who are in line now will be serviced," vowed Lavonne Banks with the Illinois Department of Human Services. "These folks in line are receiving a card that'll allow them to return Monday or in some cases, Tuesday."
But with the ordeal of standing in line for 24 hours, in the summer heat, many say there has to be a better way of dispersing these badly needed funds.


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At Peekaboo our focus is on ensuring our customers' event goes great and the attendees have a terrific time.
Orlando, FL (PRWEB) November 23, 2012
Orlando holiday parties are more than eggnog and Santa hats. They are a chance for friends and coworkers to reunite in a social atmosphere and kick off the holiday season together while looking back on the year.
Fortunately with modern technology there is a solution to capture the holiday fun and cheer forever, namely portable Photo Booths. Photo Booths have been a steeply rising trend over the past few years at weddings, birthday parties, and other popular events, however, now is the perfect time to rent your own photo booth.
Andrew Birr from Peekaboo Photo Booth in Winter Park Florida states "Photo Booths are a perfect solution for holiday events. From a corporate party aspect they enable coworkers to take candid pictures with each other, build camaraderie, and relationships. From a private party perspective it is a perfect item to add some extra flare to any party and provides an instant memorable keepsake that your friends and family will remember forever."
With the sudden explosion in the Orlando photo booth rental business rental companies tend to book up quickly for the holidays. "Typically we start receiving calls in November for Holiday and New Year's Eve parties, however, we receive plenty of requests up to a year or more in advance."
Additionally renting a photo booth is a simple process, typically companies arrive, setup, assist, and take down the photo booth after the event. "At Peekaboo our focus is on ensuring our customers' event goes great and the attendees have a terrific time. All we need is for the party host to tell us where to set up and we are ready to go"
About Peekaboo Photo Booth
With more than five years of experience, Peekaboo Photo Booth (http://www.peekaboophotobooth.com/orlando-photo-booth-rental/) has completed more than 1,000 successful events. The company offers classy, cabana-style booths that are easy to set up and simple to use. Based in Winter Park, Fla., Peekaboo Photo Booth is a privately-owned firm that offers services nationwide. In addition to operating in the Orlando area, the company also has a presence in the following metropolitan areas: Phoenix, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Houston, Dallas, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago, and Detroit. Peekaboo Photo Booth has been in the Photo Booth Rental Business for over 5 years and celebrates a nationwide footprint servicing both private and corporate events.


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Absolutely love her voice. Gorgeous as well.
Started this thread because i think the last what are you listening to thread died when the old music folder was killed.
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Drake demands a pair of hair clippers backstage at every tour venue so he can stay stylish while on the road.
The Best I Ever Had hitmaker's tour rider has emerged online and the documents reveal Drake likes to keep his short locks in shape by asking gig organisers to place Andis T-Outliner trimmers in his dressing room.
In the papers, obtained by Thesmokinggun.com, Drake also asks for a box of cigars, incense sticks and scented candles, and his catering requirements list soup and fruit trays, as well as vodka, tequila and whiskey.


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Zentangle is a method of meditative drawing that helps clear your mind and destress. Repetitive patterns allow the mind to quiet, and once you're finished, you have a beautiful piece of art. This class is taught by certified Zentangle instructors. The class price includes your starter supply kit for use in class and afterward.


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Joseph Maher
Joseph Maher, 35, of Astoria, NY died May 19, 2012 at home. He was the husband of Stephanie (Ajello) Maher.
A son of Denis and Gertrude (Healy) Maher. Joseph was a HVAC technician for 18 years and was currently employed for React Technical, Inc. in NY. He was a graduate of Cranston East High School, a member of the Steamfitters Union Local #638 and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge #279.
He was the brother of Sean, Denis and Siobhain Maher.
His funeral will be held Friday, May 25, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. from the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Home, 2435 Warwick Ave., Warwick with a Mass of Christian Burial in SS. Peter & Paul Church, Highland St., West Warwick at 11 a.m. Burial in SS. Peter & Paul Cemetery. Visiting hours Thursday, May 24, 2012 from 2-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Flowers are welcome or contributions to the American Heart Association, 1 State St., Providence, RI 02908 will be appreciated. Information and condolences, visit TheQuinnFuneralHome.com.


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By Sheng Lee (@shengdanger)
WISCareers is a web-based career information system created by Wisconsin Careers. It is located within the Center for Education and Work at UW Madison's School of Education. The easy-to-use website encourages a self-directed and engaged approach to career development and job search.
The WISCareers website is designed to help you. By taking its self-assessments you will become aware of yourself and explore how your unique
patterns of interests, skills and values can be applied in your career. Use the ePortfolio to become aware of the relevance of how your current educational experiences serve as the foundation for future career aspirations and life path.
With its many other tools and resources, you will develop the job-seeking skills needed to acquire meaningful employment and make successful transitions into and throughout the world of work. And the best part is it's all FREE to you if you're enrolled at UW Oshkosh!
Here's what it offers:
• Self-assessments matching occupations to interests, values and skills
• Comprehensive information on more than 700 occupations and overviews of more than 450 specializations including: education required, pros and cons, salary ranges, job outlook, and where you can expect to work
• ePortfolio that helps you document your progress and can be shared with others
How to begin:
1.) Create your account:
• go to wiscareers.wisc.edu
• click on Register
• enter the *Registration Code
• click Submit
• create a Username and Password
• Follow the steps to complete the registration and enjoy!
*All UW Oshkosh students are provided with this Registration Code: osh-c427
2.) Access your account
• Go to wiscareers.wisc.edu
• Enter your Username and Password
• Click Login
3.) Transfer your account:
• Need to transfer your account to a new school or organization? Acquire the Registration Code for the new location, then follow these simple steps:
o Go to wiscareers.wisc.edu
o Click on At a new location?
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Cameron Rast, on game: "Tonight was a good game between two very good teams. I thought that for the first 60-65 minutes, we were playing exactly how we wanted to play. We had the chances to be up 2-0 in the first half, but you have to give Wake Forest credit. They got back in the game and then went in front and were able to hold us off. We played well enough to win, but we didn't get it done in the end and they did."
Rast, on scoring chances: "Soccer is a game of close calls. We had two good chances to score before they got their second goal and we didn't put them away. Then they came back with a bit of fortunate goal. However, they are a good team and sometimes you have to create your own luck and they were able to take advantage of their chances better than we were."
Rast, on seniors: "I think that we have a lot of talent coming back next year, but we are definitely going to miss the contributions of Keith DeVey and Erik Ustruck. They have both had outstanding careers with us and they are guys that you just can't replace. They should be very proud of their careers."
Senior Erik Ustruck, on game: "Overall, our team played a great game tonight and we battled down to the last second of the game and we had our chances. Wake Forest is a good team and I wish them luck in the Final Four. Tonight was just a great game between two teams that put everything out there."
Ustruck, on DeVey's injury: "It was tough to see Keith go out especially since he is a fellow senior and because it was the quarterfinals of the NCAA's. I thought that we adjusted well and Jeff (Cosgriff) came in and did a great job."
Ustruck, on play to set up penalty kick: "I was waiting for their center backs to open up. We had talked about attacking their center backs all week and on that play, I saw the opening and I heard Keith (DeVey) yelling for the ball so I just sent the ball through and he was in alone. It was tough to see him get taken down at that point in the game and have him leave the game injured. "
Ustruck, on career at SCU: "Being at Santa Clara has meant the world to me. I couldn't ask for a better group of guys to play with. It has been a great four years. I would have loved to have gotten to St. Louis to finish out my career but not everything works out exactly the way you want. I have had a great time here and I feel fortunate to have been a part of it."


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Moog Store Sale In Honor Of Moogfest
Andy Votel has assembled his 'Top 10 Early Patch-Bay Polymaths from Eastern Europe' for Self-Titled Magazine. Votel is the driving force behind the popular reissue label Finders Keepers, known for seeking out and reissuing vinyl obscurities from around the world.
Electronic icon and Dance Music Hall of Fame inductee Frankie Knuckles has passed away. Known as "The Godfather of House Music" for his role in developing and popularizing the genre during the 1980's, his contributions to electronic music will be missed but not forgotten. Celebrate Frankie Knuckles' life by innovating and championing a new form of music.

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Planning Spatial Workflows to Optimize Grid Performance
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In many scientific workflows, particularly those that operate on spatially oriented data, jobs that process adjacent regions of space often reference large numbers of files in common. Such workflows, when processed using workflow planning algorithms are are unaware of the application\'s file reference pattern, result in a huge number of redundant file transfers between Grid sites and consequently perform poorly. This work presents a generalized approach to planning spatial workflow schedules for Grid execution based on the spatial proximity of files and the spatial range of jobs. We evaluate our solution to this problem using the file access pattern of an astronomy application that performs co-addition of images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We show that, in initial tests on grids of 5-25 sites, our spatial clustering approach eliminates 50-90% of the file transfers between Grid sites relative to the next-best planning algorithms we tested that were not "spatially aware." At moderate levels of concurrent file transfer, this reduction of redundant network I/O improves the application execution time by 30% to 70%, reduces Grid network and storage overhead, and is broadly applicable to a wide range of spatially oriented problems.


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Interactive Database Help
Statistical Interactive Database - navigate by A to Z listing
Which alphabetical list would you like to use?
Combined A to Z list
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Country split of cross-border business
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Adopt-A-Less-Adoptable *UPDATE*
How exciting! Our little friend Frances, who need a home found one and is doing wonderful, she even has a new name. Here is the update on Mattie:
You just would not believe the change in Mattie! We can't believe it. She is the happiest, peppiest little puppy girl we have ever know. The house training is going great due to Moe. After they finished working on the house next door, she will go out when he goes out and do what he does. She still has an occasional accident, of course, or can't hold it quite that long. But she is doing great.
She gobbles her duck/sweet potato food like a little fox and Moe likes that food too so we are switching him over to it. She NEVER goes off alone. She is still frightened by certain things and noises but she stays with us all the time- and wants to play. She sleeps on a baby blanket by my legs and she sleeps all night. No moving around.
She has discovered that she loves to ride in the car with us. She jumps up and down she gets so excited and doesn't mind being picked up. She raises her right front leg as a signal to pick her up. She also lets strangers pet her on the head and back and we can rub her all over.
We had her blessed at the Service of St Francis and sprinkled with Holy Water this past Saturday. I am including a photo of us with the clergy who performed the service.Thank you so much for saving her. She has blossomed into the happiest little dog. She loves her home and we love her!
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Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Jon Stewart
Episode 13: Zach sits down with Will Ferrell, the star of Everything Must Go, Anchorman and Old School, to talk about lunch, dance teams and to show a never before seen clip from his movie.
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May 22, 2011
CategoryWeb Series Sketch Parody
(show music plays)
Zach Galifianakis: Hi, my name is
Zach Galifianakis.
Zach Galifianakis: Welcome to another addition
of Between Two Ferns.
Zach Galifianakis: My guess is Will Ferrell.
- Will: Hey.
- Zach: Hey man.
- Will: What's up?
- Zach: What's up?
- Will: Great to see you.
- Zach: Nice to see you too.
- Will: Thanks for having me. It's fun.
- Zach: You look great.
Will Ferrell: Thank you.
Zach Galifianakis: You look really good.
- Will: Likewise.
- Zach: Yeah.
Zach Galifianakis: We've really never had a
sit down, one on one--
Zach Galifianakis: I think we had that lunch one time.
Will Ferrell: We did have a lunch, right, in New York?
Zach Galifianakis: You're a big lunch guy too.
Will Ferrell: Yep.
Zach Galifianakis: I knew that was the case.
Zach Galifianakis: Everything Must Go, is kind
of a departure for you right.
Will Ferrell: Yeah. You've done a little
bit of that where
Will Ferrell: you get to do a more serious...
Zach Galifianakis: You do one for them, and
you do one for you.
Will Ferrell: Right.
- Zach: Yeah, that's the kind of...
- Will: Bones it out.
Zach Galifianakis: Um.
Zach Galifianakis: Uh.
Zach Galifianakis: Oh God, that really hurt.
Will Ferrell: Did that--
I'm sorry. Did that hurt you?
Will Ferrell: I felt like we barely touched.
Zach Galifianakis: Should we see a clip?
(foreign language is spoken)
(a child in the background is whining)
Zach Galifianakis: That was good.
- Will: There you have it.
- Zach: Yeah.
Will Ferrell: And just to be real clear
with the audience,
Will Ferrell: that's the part of the film
where the monkey grabs
Will Ferrell: a frog to suck on his genitals.
Zach Galifianakis: Right. I think this is
going pretty well so far.
Will Ferrell: I'm having a great time.
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah, it's nice to have you
here. Do you mind
Zach Galifianakis: if I do a little word from the sponsor?
Will Ferrell: Oh no, not at all. Yeah. You gotta...
Zach Galifianakis: Okay.
Zach Galifianakis: Handle it.
Will Ferrell: Man and Speed Stick.
Will Ferrell: I actually have a
sponsor as well--
Zach Galifianakis: Oh, really?
Will Ferrell: --If you wouldn't mind
indulging me. It's Charlie.
Zach Galifianakis: It's a women's perfume.
Will Ferrell: It's a woman's perfume.
Zach Galifianakis: Does it smell good?
Will Ferrell: It's pungent.
I'll just leave it at that.
- Zach: Yeah.
- Will: Yeah.
Zach Galifianakis: In your down time, what
do you get up to?
Will Ferrell: Well, I like to do a lot of
work with the community. The--
Zach Galifianakis: What's going on?
Kid: You're fat.
Will Ferrell: Can I just stop you real
quick, and just say,
Will Ferrell: what a wonderful atmosphere
you have here.
Will Ferrell: It's a great set. It's a great vibe--
Will Ferrell: Great incredible spread.
In fact, I was having--
Will Ferrell: Can you bring up some of those
cherries over?
Will Ferrell: I was having some of these
Will Ferrell: Have you tried any of these
Will Ferrell: Just take one bite of this.
Will Ferrell: Is that not the nicest cherry?
Zach Galifianakis: Mmm.
Zach Galifianakis: Do you have the--
Zach Galifianakis: Thank you.
Zach Galifianakis: You okay?
Let me help you with it.
Zach Galifianakis: What is your favorite app?
Will Ferrell: Oddly enough...
Jon Hamm: Um, did I leave my keys here?
Zach Galifianakis: What?
Jon Hamm: My car keys. I can't find my keys.
Zach Galifianakis: That was like two and a half
years ago.
Jon Hamm: Can I just look around.
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah.
Jon Hamm: Oh, I got them.
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah.
Jon Hamm: See you guys.
Will Ferrell: Bye.
Zach Galifianakis: What kind of other things
do you do in your down time?
Will Ferrell: I'm starting to manage
dance teams, hip-hop groups.
Zach Galifianakis: Oh that's great.
Will Ferrell: Yeah. Anywhere from 4-50
kids, and just a lot of
Will Ferrell: energy, a lot of emotion, a
lot of fun, a lot of high-fivin',
a lot of smiles.
Zach Galifianakis: That's basically the
mantra of it. It's like a
Zach Galifianakis: lot of high-fives. Is that
what you said?
Will Ferrell: I said, if you were listening,
a lot of emotion,
Will Ferrell: a lot of high-fives, and a
lot of smiles.
Will Ferrell: That's what I said.
Will Ferrell: And I was pretty clear
about what I said.
Will Ferrell: I listen to what you're asking
me, and
Will Ferrell: if you're not listening to
my answers lets just call it a day.
Zach Galifianakis: But the mantra is--
Will Ferrell: Just shut up about the mantra.
Will Ferrell: Just shut up!
Will Ferrell: Okay!
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah.
Will Ferrell: If you can't get the
fat out of your ears,
Will Ferrell: and listen then why am I here.
Will Ferrell: Get the fucking fat out of
your ears!
Zach Galifianakis: Okay. You know what?
I'm not that fat!
Zach Galifianakis: Okay?
Zach Galifianakis: I'm not that fat!
Zach Galifianakis: I lost 9 pounds.
(Will cracks up)
Will Ferrell: Ow!
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I have to admit that we are a bit slow on reporting the news on FOSS gaming projects with we actually host ourselves via the freegamedev.net forums. Valyria Tear is sadly no exception, and their new 0.6.0 release has been out a few days already. Sorry to all whom this may concern.
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Intel to ship 30 MILLION Ultrabooks in 2012 - report
Chipzilla's target is 40 per cent of consumer notebooks by end of year
Intel has reportedly estimated that Ultrabook shipments will not exceed 30 million in 2012, a figure which could be some way lower than the one bandied about by CEO Paul Otellini, who predicted that 40 per cent of consumer notebooks would be Ultrabooks by the end of the year.
The reports admittedly came from the rather dubious "sources from the upstream supply chain" who told Digitimes that Chipzilla's internal estimates are for shipments of 20-30m in 2012, followed by two or even three times that in 2013.
The report went on to claim that Intel is working with upstream manufacturers to ensure that plastic chassis some are building meet the Ultrabook standards for sturdiness and quality.
When asked to confirm the figure of 20-30m, Intel offered The Register the following canned statement:
We've set ambitious goals, and we're thrilled with the reception to Ultrabook devices so far. There's already been a lot of enthusiasm around the category and this is just the beginning for Ultrabook – we're just getting started. Our goal is to work with the industry to transform personal computing by delivering a single device that offers the most complete, satisfying, no-compromise and more secure experience in sleek, beautiful designs.
A spokesman also confirmed the chip giant's aggressive 2012 targets for the category, which were repeated by Otellini on a conference call in January.
"The goal we stated at Computex 2011 was specific to shifting 40 per cent of the global consumer notebook market segment to Ultrabook systems by the end of 2012," he told The Reg.
"As I said, we've set ambitious goals, and we're thrilled with the reception to Ultrabook devices so far."
To drill down a bit into that figure, IDC said it is expecting 147m consumer notebooks to be shipped in 2012. Now, 40 per cent of that figure is 58.8m – significantly higher than the 30m which Digitimes is saying the chip giant is now predicting.
However, crucially, Intel is saying the 40 per cent target applies only to the end of 2012, not for the entire year, which makes comparisons with the Digitimes report more problematic.
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With the canonizations of Pope Sts. John XXIII and John Paul II, legions of Catholic priests will delight in the moment. Certainly, many lay and religious men and women also hold these two spiritual leaders in high esteem. But so many priests who prepared for ministry and were ordained during their remarkable pontificates look in a special way to one or the other as a lasting inspiration and model, giving us the "John XXIII generation" and "John Paul II generation" of priests.
Admiration of Pope St. John XXIII and some close contact with him during his seminary days "deeply affected my life and still does to this day," said Father Douglas Brougher in a recent interview with Our Sunday Visitor.
Father Brougher, a priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, was ordained Dec. 19, 1962. Before that, beginning in 1959, he attended seminary at the North American College, the seminary run in Rome by the U.S. bishops.
He started there not long after John was elected pope and was ordained just months before John's death. He had a front-row seat for the refreshing new style of ministry John brought to the papacy and also for the preparations and opening days of the Second Vatican Council that John summoned.
"Being that close to him during those years and seeing his example of ministry and his vision of the Church has been very important to me," Father Brougher said.
Father Brougher will never forget standing in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 11, 1962, for the opening ceremony of Vatican II. "I stood there and watched the pope and those 2,500 bishops from all over the world process into the basilica. It taught me the universality of the Church, and Pope John made it happen. It was one of the great experiences of my life."
Father Brougher said he has carried the open and expansive view of the Church he learned from Pope John with him throughout his priesthood. "I've tried to imitate his sanctity, his beautiful simplicity and his humility. I have not always measured up. But I have always tried."
It's hard to beat Msgr. George Ryan's story of contact with Pope John XXIII. On Holy Thursday of 1961, at the Mass of the Lord's Supper at Rome's St. John Lateran Basilica, Pope John washed Ryan's feet. The moment, which he shared with 11 other seminarians of the Collegio Capranica where he studied, made a great impression on him.
"After the pope washed our feet, he kissed them, and then he gave us each a warm smile of deep recognition as a brother in Christ. It was a beautiful experience. He was such a humble and beautiful person," Msgr. Ryan told OSV.
Msgr. Ryan recalls his surprise when he saw the simplicity and cheerfulness of the newly elected Pope John. "His charity exuded from him. You knew he was filled with the love of Jesus Christ. That taught me about the charity I was called to have for people as a priest. Love was the thing about him that captivated me," he said.
Msgr. Ryan still remembers saying on his ordination day, Dec. 17, 1962, that he hoped to be the sort of priest John XXIII was — loving people and being involved in their lives. It is a hope he has continued to work toward throughout his long priesthood in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
A similar fondness for another pope, St. John Paul II, beats in the heart of Father Ronald Richards, who was ordained on May 29, 2004, for the Archdiocese of Detroit. Father Richards attended North American College from 2000-04 and was able to meet John Paul on several occasions during those years. On one of them, John Paul blessed the chalice Richards still uses daily for Mass. "I think of him every time I celebrate Mass," Father Richards told OSV.
"Meeting him was amazing. By that time, his health was really declining, and yet, when he shook your hand, he looked into your eyes and connected with you. He was truly giving you that moment.
"It taught me how important it is to give people your time, to really be present to them, no matter what else happens to be going on in your day. I've tried to keep that lesson with me as a priest," he said.
He recalls vividly how authentic and "real" John Paul II was in his interactions with people. "He had an ability to connect with people. I admired that, and the memory reminds me to try to be as real with people as possible, too. It's not about putting on airs. What we do and say as priests affects people's lives, and I will always remember that," Father Richards said.
The centrality and intensity of John Paul II's prayer life is one of the things that most impressed Father Luke Sweeney, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York who studied at the North American College from 1997 to 2002. It's a lesson he has carried with him since his ordination on May 19, 2001.
"It taught me of the importance of that time of daily adoration, going every day before the Lord. I know my heart needs it, and so it's something that I strive to make a part of each day, even when the days are busy," Father Sweeney told OSV.
Father Sweeney spent a great deal of time studying the writings of John Paul II. One of the most important things he learned is that "the essence of love is to make oneself a gift to others. We are called to receive that gift from God and to live it in our lives. That really made an impact on me, and I try to teach it to others, whether I'm forming seminarians or preparing couples for marriage or whatever it may be."As vice rector of Cathedral Seminary House of Formation in Douglaston, N.Y., Father Sweeney now passes on what he learned to more men studying for the priesthood.
Fathers Brougher, Ryan, Richards and Sweeney each look forward with delight to the dual canonizations of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II. "It's a glorious moment for the Church," Father Richards said.
Thousands of his brother priests, who continue to look to the two as models and guides, surely agree.
Barry Hudock is the author of "Faith Meets World: The Gift and Challenge of Catholic Social Teaching" (Liguori, $16.99).
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First Corinthians Chapter 2 and we're looking at verses 6-16 as our unit of study this morning in our continuing look at 1 Corinthians. Just a preface if I might in order to maybe defend myself this morning before we begin in our study. I supposed that from time to time all of us examine what we do to try to just define a little better the things that we do, especially as Christians. And one of the things that constantly is going through my mind in terms of definition is what is it that I'm endeavoring to accomplish as I teach the word of God week in and week out?
Am I attempting to entertain the people? Well, not really. Although I hope parts of it aren't boring. Am I endeavoring to inspire and motivate them? Yes, but more than that, I hope it's inspiration and motivational. Basically, what I am endeavoring to do week in and week out as we meet together is to tell you what the Scripture means. And I think it's important for us to back up to that particular perspective from time to time so we can see what it is we're supposed to get so we know when we've gotten it.
Our objective in studying the word of God is not to entertain you, that'll pass fast. Not to motivate you and inspire you, that will pass fast, but to explain to you what the Bible means. Then you can go back to it as a point of reference with understanding. And so my task as a teacher of the word of God is just that to show you what it means and perhaps along the way to inspire or entertain or whatever happens. To help you to better grasp what it means. And so we want this morning to discover what it means by what it says in 1 Corinthians 2:6-16. If you leave this service and you understand what these verses mean, that's exciting, because this is God's word to you today.
Now as you remember one of the many problems that existed in the Corinthian situation was the failure of the Christians to break with human philosophy. The Corinthians were in a very, very immoral and humanly intellectual society, a world that was pretty well based upon the reason and the lusts of men and when they became Christians they dragged this kind of immorality and this kind of rationalism into the church. And the book of Corinthians is written to try to get them to cut the cords of their former worldly life, both philosophically and in terms of moral behavior.
Well, one of the problems that was existing was the fact that these people before they became Christians were lined with certain philosophers. And when they became believers, they tended to attach continually to that philosopher so that they dragged the human philosophy into the church, and there was a lack of unity because they couldn't agree on philosophy. And so Paul writes a lengthy section from Chapter 1, verse 18 through Chapter 2, 3, and even part of 4, telling them to cut off from human philosophy. To sever the connection. That human philosophy is unnecessary. That human wisdom has nothing to offer them. And the purpose then of this section this morning is to continue Paul's argument against the necessity of human wisdom.
Let me add a footnote, because I don't want you to misconstrue what we're saying. We realize that man has really developed some amazing things scientifically and technologically that have been to our benefit. When we say we reject human wisdom, it doesn't mean that we reject any application of human wisdom to anything at all. It means, we object to human philosophy. That is that part of man's reasoning which attempts to answer ultimate questions.
We don't have an answer to everything as Christians. For example, if my wife's washing machine goes wrong, I'm a Christian, but I still can't fix it. I've got to get an unsaved guy to fix it or whatever. I mean, there's some things that human wisdom provides for me that I don't have, you know. So that isn't the issue. If I need my car fixed, I'm not so concerned that the guy's a Christian as that he is a good mechanic. And we're not disparaging that. Some of the greatest teachers I've ever had in my life, some of the people who've taught me the most, some of the people who've had the greatest influence on my life in terms of framing my personality have been non-Christians who really knew something about their area of education or technology or whatever it might be, history, science.
But when the world gets into the area of trying to understand where man came from, why he's here, where he's going, what his meaning is, when it tries to define God, when it tries to define morality, when it tries to define real joy, real peace, real happiness, it wiped out. That's philosophy. The study of wisdom. And it refers to ultimate wisdom. The world is terrific in other areas. Do you realize that it may be that there will be very soon genetic controls and microsurgery by radiation and laser beams? That the control of the aging process will allow us to live to 100 years. For some people if life doesn't get any better that won't be any blessing. Do you realize that they may be able to eliminate tooth decay by welding enamel on your teeth with laser beams? Any color you want?
Spot welding of the retina. The extended use of the bloodless knife in surgery, which is a beam that cuts and cauterizes at the same time. And interesting thing I read is that by 1981 we will have household robots made by Phomocoto do our lawn. Halleluiah. Been waiting for that one for a long time. By that time, my son will be old enough, won't need it. So we're not saying that man's technology hasn't helped us. We're not saying that medical technology, the scientific technology, the advancement in many areas has not helped and we do accept that we do believe in that and we do respond to that, but the thing that bothers is all of the philosophy of man that continues to drown us.
Do you realize there are 2,000 new pages printed every second? There are 365,000 hardback books printed every year and that doesn't include the paperbacks. Different books. There are 60 million pages a year produced and most of this espouses the philosophy of man. It's becoming so difficult to store all this information that we have microfilm, but microfilm doesn't work, it's too big. They've got laser storage. You know how they do that? They store something on a crystal, shoot a laser beam at it and refract it off onto a screen and they can store it in the tiniest little part of a crystal.
That's too bulky. Carry your registration around in a pocket full of crystals. That's too bulky. They have developed molecular storage. They can put the entire Library of Congress on the object the size of a sugar cube. Of course, nobody could afford the machine to read it. It's amazing to the writing of books there is no end. And we're not denying that man has made great contribution. In fact, in some areas the world is a lot smarter than Christians are. You say are you kidding? No, that's what Jesus said. Luke 16:8, "For the sons of the age are in their generation wiser than the sons of light." Wow. The world is smarter about some things in their own domain than we are about some things in our domain. What the principle is saying is this, if the Christian would apply himself to the gaining of the godliness like the worldly man applies himself to the gaining of wealth, it'd be a whole different church. That's the point.
They do some things with a great deal more diligence than we do. If we applied ourselves to our souls like they do to their wallets, no telling what God might do. So we're not denying the place of human wisdom at all. We're simply saying that when human wisdom is applied toward ultimate truth or toward the things which deal with God and sin and man's destiny and salvation and transformation of life and morality and ethics and all that, that man's philosophy is bankrupt. Absolutely zilch.
So Paul says to the Corinthians now you don't need this philosophy. Junk it, it's unnecessary. As I've said before where it's right, it's only right because it agreed with the Scripture so you don't need it. Where it's wrong, you really don't need it. So you don't need it. Now Paul illustrates the fact that he doesn't believe in the necessity of human wisdom by Chapter 2, verses 1-5. He says, do you remember how it was when I came to you? "I didn't come with excellency of speech," verse 1, "or wisdom." Verse 4, "My speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom." Verse 5, "I didn't want your faith to stand in the wisdom of men."
In other words, Paul says you can see that I didn't put any stock in human philosophy. I didn't put any stock in human wisdom by the very way that I came to you, that's obvious. Verse 2, "I determine to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." I didn't come to you with some sophisticated words or sophisticated philosophy. I came to you with simplicity. You see the gospel does not need the addition of human philosophy. God does not need man's reason, man's innovation. Everything the gospel comes in really is very simple.
The preacher comes along in Corinth like Paul did and presents Christ and Him crucified. It's very simple. In fact, they said it's so simple it's foolish, remember that? The preaching of the cross was to them that perish what? Foolishness. They said this is stupid. This is nonsense. You mean you expect us intellectuals with all the wisdom that we've gained and all the education and all the sophisticated philosophies, you mean that you expect us to believe that somewhere, some time one guy dies on a cross and that's the whole crux of human destiny?
And I've heard people say the same thing today. They say for little kids and old ladies, right? No intelligent man would believe that. I can't buy it. I've had many people say that to me. And when Paul comes along, and when you come along, and say now we don't preach human wisdom they say you're sure right. What you've got is foolishness. Now watch verse 6. "However, we are speaking wisdom." Stop right there. It may not be the world's wisdom and you may think it is foolish and you may say it is simple and simplistic, but we are speaking wisdom.
You may not see it as such, but it is. I reject human wisdom. I reject human reason, but we do teach true wisdom. They object that he doesn't teach philosophy. He says, philosophy can't save. Do you realize that after all the philosophies and philosophers of the ages man is just as bad as he's ever been, if not worse. More wars, more crime, worse. And so he says, "We are speaking wisdom," watch this, "among them that are perfect." The problem is that only the saved know it.
Perfect, teleios, here refers to full grown or mature and in this context incidentally the word teleios or teleios wherever it's used to speak of perfect ones, it has to be interpreted in the context, because it can mean a Christian who's very mature or it can just mean a Christian period. A Christian is one who has come to the place of knowledge of being complete in Christ. And so here it is referring to a Christian, not a super Christian, just a Christian, because he's not contrasting mature Christians with infantile ones. He's contrasting Christians with unbelievers. We are speaking wisdom among those that are believers. The only people who know this is wisdom are the Christians.
See if you can illustrate it in your own mind. Some of you can't remember when you weren't a Christian, like the little kid said, you know, are you a Christian. He says all my life, you know, I've been a Christian. I don't know anything else. Maybe you're in the same boat. Maybe ever since you were a little kid, that's all you've ever known. You've always been a Christian, but if you can think back to the time that you weren't a Christian and think about your reactions to the gospel, usually your reaction was the gospel was pretty stupid, pretty foolish. And it didn't really seem very profound did it? Christ dies on the cross and said that it's. And when you became a Christian all of a sudden the whole meaning of the gospel got some depths to it that just were unfathomable.
And you began to realize that this stuff was deep. And the longer you've been a Christian, the deeper it all gets, right? And the more unsearchable and you feel like the apostle Paul who in Romans 11:33 says "Oh how unsearchable are thy ways." How past finding out. How deep is your wisdom and knowledge. But before you were a believer, it was all very simplistic. And then when you become a believer and you begin to look at the cross and you begin to look at the gospel and you begin to look at the incarnation and what went on at the cross and you can't even begin with your human reason to plum the depths of all that is there.
And so the apostle says yes, we are speaking wisdom, but the only people who understand it are the believers. And you don't understand it because it is human philosophy. It is wisdom. The wisdom of God. Only opened to the minds of believers. That's what Ephesians 1:8 says. That it's God whose given us the understanding of His wisdom. Now from there Paul divides the rest of the text into two points. I'm just going to give these two points to you. Very simple, and yet I want you to get this, because you'll find that this can be very, very helpful, not only in giving you the understanding of the passage that God's given us, but in helping you to relate this to somebody else.
Two points, number one, true wisdom is not humanly discovered. Number two, true wisdom is divinely revealed. That's pretty simple. Number one, true wisdom is not humanly discovered. You can't discover God on your own. You can't go into a phone booth and take off your clothes. You can do that, but you wouldn't come out Superman. You can't transcend the natural. You can't understand God any more than something lower than you can understand you. Did you ever hear of two bugs discussing human anatomy? By the time they've learned anything about human anatomy it's too late.
Did you ever hear a glass of water talking to a loaf of bread? You say what kind of stuff is that? That's just as ridiculous as hear two men thinking they understand God. It's totally out of your area. I was in a meeting the other night of some dear folks, and we had a great time together, and they were telling me their opinion about God. But you know, I hear that all the time. Well, I think God, well, I think God. Well, you know something, what you think about God is irrelevant. You couldn't know God no matter how hard you tried, no matter how many spiritual grunts and groans you went through. Because you cannot escape the confines of a natural existence and leap into the supernatural dimension, come back and tell us about God.
You can't leave, you're here. You're stuck. You're in a natural world. You are unable to know God. True wisdom, that is ultimate truth regarding God, man, destiny, all of that, salvation is not known to man's mind. Yet all the religions of the world are efforts on the part of man to discover God. To find God. Christianity says you can't find God, He found you. Luke 19, "The Son of man has come to," what, "seek who's lost." We always give testimonies. I found the Lord, but He wasn't lost. He found you. If you had to be looking for Him, you'd have had a mess, because you couldn't find Him. Thank God He came and found us.
And so it is that we are not able to transcend our system. Now notice how he develops this in verse 6. "We are speaking among them that are perfect this wisdom. Yet we realized that it is not the wisdom of this age nor of the princes of this age that comes to nothing." It is not a wisdom that is available to either the philosophies or the philosophers of this age, which come to nothing. We go on preaching wisdom, not the wisdom of the world, thione, in the Greek. It's translated world maybe in your Bible or maybe age or maybe era. Ion has the idea of time. We are not speaking the wisdom of this particular time. And for every different time there's a different philosophy, right? Philosophers just keep coming and going and coming and going and all of them have come to nothing. Add up all that philosophy has contributed and you get zero.
The wisdom of this age, the wisdom of the next era, the wisdom of the next era, the wisdom of the next era, nothing. It's all katargeto, rendered ineffective, empty. And whatever age you happen to be living in, we're not preaching that. I'm not here to tell you human opinion. I'm not here to tell you what I think. I'm not here to give you some wonderful philosophy for life. I'm here to tell you what the Bible means by what it says because this is the revelation of God. If I was giving human opinion, it would only take me about two weeks to empty this place. First people would go would be the ones who disagreed with my opinion. The second group to go would be the ones who agreed with my opinion because they don't need me. I'm not here to give you my opinion. I'm here to tell you what the word says.
And so it is that Paul says that we realize that this ultimate truth is outside the boundaries of the wisdom of this particular era and the philosophers of this era all of whom come to nothing. But verse 7, and here's the strongest adversative in the Greek language, Allah, "But on the other hand we speak or are speaking the wisdom of God." Stop right there. We are not speaking something from this system or from this world from these philosophers rather it is from whom? From God. He is talking about a divine supernatural wisdom.
Yes, we are speaking wisdom. They said ah foolishness. Nonsense, no. We are speaking wisdom and the believers understand that it's wisdom. It is not the wisdom from your system, it is the wisdom of God. And the reason you don't understand it, verse 7, is "We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery even the hidden wisdom." The reason you don't know it is, it isn't knowable to you. Man doesn't know the wisdom of God because God has not given it to man to know. He has put it outside the boundaries of man's capacity.
Now when you see the word mystery there you need to get a definition. Musterion in the Greek, it doesn't mean something that's a cultic or clan destined or puzzling or like a labyrinth or a maze where you've got to sort of find your way on the quest for the wisdom of God. It isn't that at all. The word mystery means a secret which is impossible for man to penetrate, but which God has chosen to reveal. Something man can't know, but God has revealed. So the word points to the impossibility of man knowing God's secret and the love of God which makes that secret known.
Aren't you glad we couldn't know it? Well, you say, I'm not too glad. Aren't you glad we couldn't know it, but God revealed it? Yes. It would be tragic if we couldn't know it and it got stuck that way. We can't know it. It's outside of us. Aren't you glad it's outside of us. Aren't you glad that ultimate truth is outside man? Man hasn't done much with what he's got. So it is a mystery. That is God has hidden it. It is called the hidden. That which is hidden.
God has hidden it from before the ages. Proridzo, He planned it, for ordained before the ages began, before time began, God had this marvelous salvation plan. He hid it. And in Christ and the New Testament, the mysteries were all revealed. Paul even calls himself the apostle who is given the dispensation of the mysteries to open up the mysteries. And God has opened those mysteries to us, those things which were hidden throughout history. And why unto our glory, our blessing, our eternal excellence. Imagine for all time and before time, God planned our eternal blessing. In the right time He unfolded His mystery. It's something that even the Old Testament people didn't see. They believed in God and they believed in the revelation coming, though they never saw it.
God accepted that as saving faith. But we know the full revelation of the mystery. Not because we comprehended in human minds, but because God having hidden it has now revealed it. So Paul says, look it's wisdom, we know you can't understand it, it doesn't come out of your system for the first place. For the second place, God has hidden it. The world will never know God on its own. Men will never find God on their own. The world will never develop a religion that is true. Philosophy will never cut it because it is outside the realm of man's world. It can't come from within his own world. God has hidden it from him.
Verse 8 is a living illustration of this fact. Truth, look, the true wisdom "none of the princes of this age knew. For had they known they would not have," what, "crucified the Lord of glory." Listen, what's he referring to? Watch. "None of the princes of this era," now what era was Paul living in? The New Testament period. Who were the princes of that time? They were the Jewish leaders and the Roman leaders. He says...let me give you an illustration of the fact that the world doesn't know God. That the leaders of the world have never known God on their own terms, by their own reason. Take, for example, the princes of this age, he says in verse 8. The Roman chiefs and the Jewish ones, they didn't know God. They didn't know the truth. "For if they had they never would have crucified the Lord of glory. The every God of excellence."
And my friend if you ever doubt that Jesus is God you'd better read that verse again. He is called the Lord of glory. Glory is all of the attributes of God. And these are types of all the people of all the ages who have rejected Christ. This is just the apex. This just proves the point. This is just a high point of showing you that man's wisdom can't know God. Here were all the brilliant Romans and all the educated Areodyte, well known, well schooled in the Old Testament Jews and together they crucified Christ. Executing the Lord of glory. That shows you how much they really knew. They didn't know anything.
Great illustration. The best and the wisest of the world never knew God's truth or they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. I love the way he calls Him the Lord of glory in contrast to the humiliation of crucifixion. They crucified the Lord of glory. What a misconstruing of the truth. So Paul contrasts the shame of the cross with the glory of the crucified and shows how far off the truth human wisdom was. All the Romans with all their gods and all their religion didn't know God. They crucified Him. All the Jews with all their information didn't know God. They crucified Him.
You say, but how is it so that they cannot know? How was it so that this is hidden? Verse 9 gives you the answer. "As it is written," and here he quotes from Isaiah 64:4 most likely. He says, "As it is written eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." Have most of you heard that verse before? That's the kind of verse you memorize when you're a kid isn't it? And you know, it's like so many verses we memorize. We memorize it out of context.
When I was...I can remember learning that that verse referred to heaven. Remember that? "Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard the glow of heaven," see. That doesn't have the remotest relationship to heaven primarily. Do you find anything in this context about heaven? Is he talking about heaven here? He's talking about ignorance isn't he? He's not talking about Christians not being able to know what heaven's like. He's talking about unbelievers not being able to know what salvation is like. That's his whole point. Watch it. Now he says, "It is written eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them to love Him." Now God from the ages past prepared some fantastic things for the people that love Him. But the people that don't love Him can't know what those things are. You see the world with all of it's quest for truth can't figure out what's going on.
There are only two ways you can come to the truth from a human viewpoint. Only two ways that a human can make a conclusion about truth. Number one is objective, number two is subjective. Number one is by the external empirical experiential method. The second one is by reason or logic. That's all. It's either empiricism or rationalism. Here comes the first one. "As it is written eye hath not see nor ear heard." Now, if you're going to look at objective truth, there's only two ways you can assimilate objective truth. Through the eye or the ear, right? This is how you gain truth. Well, remember folks, through the human eye and to the human ear, all of the truth cannot pass.
No, "Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard. That plan of God prepared for those that love Him." It's not observable externally. You cannot discover God. You can't run around oh there's God, now I know. No, and you'll never hear a voice out of a big mountain, "Hi, I'm God here are a few instructions." Never happen. You see it is not observable by human observation empiricism experiment. Second, let's go internal, the other way that men draw conclusions is by their own reason, rationalism. "Neither have entered into the mind of man." Heart simply means mind. You can't know it externally from an objective fact. You can't no it internally from a subjective thought process. You can't come to God by observation or by rationalism.
That's pretty hopeless, isn't it? God's got a great plan for those that love Him. God has hidden it. It's not known to the philosophers of this era. That's proven by the fact that if they had known they wouldn't have executed Jesus. And incidentally, everybody that goes on rejecting Jesus proves continually, continually, continually that they can't know the truth, doesn't it. And they can try by experiment to find it and they can try by logic to find it and they won't, because it is not known to them by that. That's the first point and I think Paul makes it well. The wisdom of God is not discoverable by the human mind.
Point number two, and this we'll see quickly, true wisdom is revealed by the Holy Spirit. You see, if you can't get out and find God, He's got to come in with His information. I'll never forget going, when I was in high school, to visit a girl in an iron lung. And it was a terrible thing. And I don't think it's as prevalent today as it used to be, but terrible to see somebody in an iron lung. And I couldn't help but think, of course, I was such a kid, you know, free and able to do and go and here was this lovely girl in an iron lung all the time. Remember those great big, like a casket thing and pumping things, you know, anything that ever came to that person came from the outside in. She didn't go anywhere. I mean nowhere. Well, that's an apt illustration of natural man. He is in the iron lung of his own incapacities. Anything that comes to him somebody brings from the outside in. He isn't going anywhere. And that's Paul's point, the Holy Spirit has invaded man's locked box with the truth.
True wisdom is revealed by the Holy Spirit. Now notice people there are three steps in the process. Revelation, inspiration and illumination, three great Christian truths. First of all revelation, this is great, watch now you're going to really be excited to know this. Verse 10, "God has revealed them unto us by His," what, "Spirit." What we would never be able to know on our own God has come into our little locked box and said here. God has invaded our iron lung and deposited the information. Wow. Revealed, apokalupto, means to disclose something that has been previously hidden. To unveil something that has been veiled. The Holy Spirit does that? That's revelation. To reveal. The Holy Spirit's up there in heaven. God says I've got a few facts I want those people down there on earth to know. The Holy Spirit who is the agent of transmission for the Trinity grabs the revelation. All right, got the revelation and of He goes to bring it to us. That's revelation. He's got the body of truth ready to deposit.
You say well, why does the Spirit do that? Look at verse 10, "For the Spirit searches all things ye the deep things of God." He's the one who knows the deep recesses of the mind of God. What better one to reveal God. Right? It doesn't mean that He's ignorant of some things and he has to search around to find them out. He's God too and He knows everything. It simply means He is the one who penetrates the inner being of God. God's own Spirit. Aren't you glad that the Bible wasn't written by a secondhand angel?
You know who wrote the Bible? God's Holy Spirit. I'm happy about that, aren't you? Because, you know, I don't know if I can trust all the angels. Some of them really messed up, didn't they? Satan used to be one of them. Listen, God didn't entrust the transmission of His Scriptures to anybody outside the Trinity. The Holy Spirit was dispatched with the information, because He's the one that knew the depths of the inner recesses of God's nature. Now he illustrates it. For example, verse 11, "What man knows the things of a man except a Spirit of the man that is in him." Let me show you what that means.
I may come up to you and say hi, friend, I know you. You have hair like this and ears like this and a nose like this and I know you. When certain things happen you react like this and your personality is, uh, and I know you. You've got a temper and you like this and I know you. You know what, but I don't know him like he knows him, right? Me and you don't know me like me and me do. Is that right? Me and me know things about me that me and you aren't ever going to know. Right? And you and you know things about you that you and me aren't ever going to know. It's just that the only one who really knows the depth of myself is my own Spirit, isn't that right?
And you know even in a marriage as close as it gets after years and years and years, there's still some things that only I know about me. And we talk about honesty, but even our honesty is somewhat veiled, isn't it? Selective honesty. That's just human nature. The one who knows me best is my own spirit. That's all He's saying. That's just an illustration. Look at the end of verse 11. "Even so, the things of God knows no man but the Spirit of God." You see the Spirit knows the deep recesses of God just as man's spirit knows the deep recesses of that man like no one else does. So God didn't send a secondary messenger. He sent the Holy Spirit who knew the most, who knew everything.
Now, we find to begin with then that is revelation. Christianity is revealed truth. The Holy Spirit grabs up all the deep things of God and comes soft with them. And He's on his way to earth. And now He arrives at the door and He says, open up, I've got something from God. You say well, what kind of package is it in. He's going to deliver the revelation, what's it wrapped in. You can't just have it all floating. You could have God standing on a mountain shouting it all out. How would it come? Well, let's find out because that takes us to the second step of the Spirit's transmission of God's truth and that is inspiration.
Here is the method by which the Spirit deliver revelation. Verse 12, oh this is good. "Now we have," what's the next word, "received." Now friends, underline that word in your Bible or draw a circle around it. That is a tremendously important word. Somebody says to me, you know, the Bible was just the opinion of man. I say look, 1 Corinthians 2, Paul said "We have received this." That means it was given to us. Look at the end of verse 12. "That we might know the things that are freely," what's the next word, "given to us of God." Where did the Bible come from? It was given by God. And what did the apostles do? They what? Received it.
Now, this is so important. This is the vehicle for carrying the revelation. The Spirit of God brings it and they received it. Now I want you to notice something. The word we in verse 12 is used a couple of times and then again in verse 13. "We received that we might know which things we speak." Please notice the word we there does not refer generally to Christians. It refers to the apostles and the Scripture writers. You and I have received these truths only from them as they recorded them. But here Paul is experiencing and writing of his own experience. " We received them from the Spirit, we that we might know what graciously was given to us which things we now speak." This is apostolic.
Remember in John 14:26, the Lord said, "Now when I go the comforter will come and He will teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said." That is not primarily for all believers. That is not a promise for us. That was spoken to those who would write the New Testament. It was to them that He gave the recall of all that Jesus said. Have you ever wondered how John could sit down and write all the whole gospel of John, 21 Chapters, and all through that entire thing record exactly the words of Christ? He could do it because the Holy Spirit brought him to his remembrance.
That's that promise there. Same here. We who have received it. We apostles, we writers. God has given it to us. You remember how? What was the vehicle? Inspiration. 2 Timothy 3:16 says that "all Scripture is inspired by God." Theapanustos, one word, God breathed. God breathed it out into our minds. We received it. The Bible was not made up by men. It is not the opinion of men. It is not the view of men. It is not the comment of men on certain acts of God. It was received from God a gift brought by the Holy Spirit. So important. And notice a freely given or a graciously given one, not earned, just graciously given.
Verse 13 follows the thought, "Which things now we are speaking not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches." Stop right there. When Paul says now when I pass this information on to you, it is not with my words, but whose words? The Holy Spirit's words. Now, listen to me people, I believe that this verse clearly teaches that the very words of the Scripture were given by the Holy Spirit. Did you get that? That is basic. That is what we call verbal inspiration. Some people say well, God inspired the general thoughts and they put it in their own words. That's ridiculous. That denies this verse and secondly, how can you have a thought without words?
"We speak not," he says this emphatically, "in the words which man's wisdom teaches." We're not speaking to you in our own words. But words which the Spirit has graciously given us and the revelation of God. Do you know when those Bible writers sat down? When Paul sat down to write 1 Corinthians, the Spirit of God took control of that man. The Spirit of God went into that guy's brain, pulled out of his brain the words that were in his own vocabulary and out of his own experience and arranged them in the order that he wanted them written. The very words selected by the Holy Spirit, but selected from the life and personality of Paul so that they reflected him. Nonetheless, the words of the Spirit.
This is God's word and these God's words. Somebody says why do you get so detailed? You study every verse, every word. Every word came from the mouth of God. You know when Satan was tempting Jesus, he didn't quote Deuteronomy and say "thou shalt not live by bread alone, but by the general principles of God." What did he say? "Thou shalt not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." God gives words and they wrote words. That is inspiration. God breathed into their minds the words. All Scripture, you know what Scripture is? You know what the word means? Writing. All writing is inspired, not all the apostles. Not all their thoughts, all their writings was inspired. God chose the words.
So when the revelation comes down, it can't be just a big glob floating out of heaven like Campbell's Alphabet Soup, it's got to be put together. And so it comes down and it goes into the mind, out the pens, and there it is written in God's words. You say that's it, the Spirit's done. Really? You think He's done? Do you know there are lots of people who have a Bible and don't know what's in it? There are all kinds of people who Bible and you know what they discover in the Bible, Jesus isn't God. Have you ever met any of them? Sometimes they knock on your door. There are people who study this Bible and come up with every kind of screwball thing there is. They don't understand what's going on. You know why? There's a third step the Holy Spirit's got to do. Illumination.
That's verses 14-16 and here the Holy Spirit has to make this thing personal because you can own a Bible and not understand it. Verse 14 tells us that. "The natural man," sukakos, the fleshly man, the man who's this human, he's just...all he's got is his human. He lives in the physical material world. Can't know God. Can't sense God. Can't get out of his little box. "Receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God." You can hand him a Bible, stick it under his nose, and it doesn't make any difference. Doesn't understand it, doesn't know what's going on. To him it's all foolish. He can't know it, because it is spiritually evaluated. Spiritually appraised, spiritually judged, spiritually discerned. And he is spiritually dead.
Psalm 119:18, the Psalmist prayed a beautiful prayer. He said, "Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." It isn't just that God gave the law. God also has to open the eyes of our understanding. The Spirit has to illuminate the mind. Truth is available, but only those who are illumined will understand that truth. The natural man he can't handle it. He's without the Holy Spirit. He may have it in his hand. His got the revelation, the inspiration, but without illumination it doesn't make any sense. He doesn't have the Holy Spirit.
Just like a blind man can't see the sun. He can't see the Son of righteousness. Just like a deaf man can't hear sweet music. He can't appreciate the sweet song of salvation. Martin Luther said "man is like a pillar of salt, like Lot's wife. He's like a log and a stone. He's like a lifeless statue which uses neither eyes nor mouth. Neither senses nor heart unless he is enlightened, converted, and regenerated by the Holy Spirit." He can't know anything if he has it. The Holy Spirit's got to open it to him. That's verse 15. "But he that is spiritual, he can evaluate all things." He that possesses the Spirit. He that has the resident true teacher within him. He that has the point of reference in himself. He that has the anointing of 1 John 2:27-28, "You have no need for human teachers, you have an anointing in you and He teaches you all things."
If you have the Holy Spirit there is the resident truth teacher and there is the evaluator. And by the Holy Spirit we take the word of God and He makes it alive and He makes meaningful. And this is for all Christians. Yes, all Christians. The world doesn't know the truth. The world can't know the truth. You know the truth because the Spirit of God dwells in you and teaches you the truth and makes this book alive. We can appraise it. We can evaluate it. The point of reference is in us. And then he adds a little shot there at the end of verse 15. "Yet he himself is judged of no man." We can appraise because we're spiritual, but nobody can appraise us. Have you ever noticed how difficult it is for the world to evaluate Christians. They don't know what we are.
Well, how can you...who do you think you are? You think you know everything. Yeah, there's no way that a natural man can evaluate a spiritual one. He can't know us, hang on, he can't know us anybody than he knew Christ. What did they do to Christ? Crucified Him. What are they going to do to us? Much the same. Laugh at us, mock us, call us fools, some places kill us. And the reason, he quotes Isaiah 40:13 to support his point, verse 16. "For who hath known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ." Listen, nobody can judge a spiritual man. For to do that would be to judge the Lord Himself. Do you see it in that verse? Fantastic.
Who knows the mind of the Lord? We have that mind. They can't figure us out because they couldn't figure Him out. Isn't it nice to know that the reason you're confusing is because you have the mind of Christ? Wow. I'm as big a mystery to the world as He was. That's kind of nice company. I'm glad for that. And what...I love this, "Who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" You know what a guy does who comes along and denies the claims of Jesus? He's saying now God let me tell you a few things about what I've learned. I want to correct a few misconceptions you've got. Oh. When somebody says to me, you know, you need to understand something. I don't buy that stuff about Christ. I'm going to tell you my opinion. My answer is oh, well, you're going to tell God now what He should believe.
What do you mean by that? Well, you see the Lord dwells within me and He's my teacher. So if you want to instruct me, remember you're instructing the mind of the Lord because I have the mind of Christ. But they get mad at that. Who do you think you are? Ha, ha, hot stuff. You've got all the answers. Well, you've got to do it lovingly, but do it. What is he saying here? The whole thing wraps up very beautifully doesn't it? He's simply saying human reason can't know God. God has to reveal Himself. God has revealed Himself in three steps, by the Holy Spirit revealed it, inspired it, and illuminates it so we can understand it. And then the point of reference is in us and we know the truth because the Spirit of God is our teacher and dwells within us. Isn't that exciting?
You know, I tell you people, I read an article one time that said the drive to know in the human being is equal to the sex drive and the hunger drive. Isn't that interesting? The drive to know. Listen, if you want to know that bad, here it is. If you'll commit your life to Jesus Christ, He'll plant within you the resident truth teacher and you'll the truth and the truth shall make you free. Free from what? Free from the quest of the truth. You will have found it. You'll be at rest. Let's pray.
Let me just say this in parting, our offer of an invitation to you is just that which Paul would have offered were he here. When we say the world doesn't know the truth, that isn't because we want to keep it that way. It's because we want to change it that we say it. We want you to know the truth is in Christ and we want you to come to Him. If you'll open your heart and receive Christ and believe in His death and resurrection you shall know the truth.
Father, thank You for our time this morning, for the goodness of God that bringeth salvation, for the grace that has brought us into a relationship with You and given us the truth. We're grateful for the Holy Spirit who lives in us, teaching us, we thank You. God we know that even though He's our truth teacher, we can quench that teaching and that instruction. We can grieve that Spirit. May it not be. May we be submissive filled walking in the Spirit that indeed we might be able to discern all things. We thank You for the privilege of sharing together in Your word this morning and we ask You to draw to Yourself this hour those who need You so much. In Christ's name, Amen.
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During the Crusades Richard the Lionheart visited the Cypriot city of Limassol (then known as Lemesos) to free his betrothed from the Byzantine sovereign. The subsequent wedding became a party that remains legendary today, which is probably why modern Limassol is still a centre of joie de vivre. This lively ambience is also aided and abetted by the fact that Limassol is the centre of winemaking on the island.
Today Limassol is Cyprus' second-largest city with around 200,000 inhabitants. Many people travel to Limassol to enjoy its lovely beaches, sidewalk cafés, and lively nightlife. Visitors can take an evening stroll on the seafront Akti Olympion, followed by a visit to a traditional buzukia tavern for live music. The Old Town radiates from the fishing harbour, with narrow streets lined with shops and boutiques.
The foothills of the Troodos Mountains lie north of the city and offer charming country walks that meander through friendly villages. A quick drive to the Kourion, only nine miles (15km) away, also offers historic sites such as The House of Achilles, the Altar of Apollo, and Curium Beach.
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